在数学史的海洋中航行

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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/03080188.2022.2130595

Agathe Keller

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这篇文章反对庆祝世界历史上一个独特的希腊“异类”的数学历史，同时提出了我们今天应该写的新型数学历史的问题。本文以梵文的数学渊源史和南亚的数学史为例，解构了希腊和欧洲例外论叙事背后的一些假设。特别是，它挑战了古希腊拥有独特的民主文化的观念，这种文化促进了科学辩论，只有希腊拥有能够挑战常识的鲁莽作家。这篇文章提供了对欧洲例外论——特别是数学——直接或间接塑造的政治历史的反思。

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Navigating the sea of histories of mathematics

ABSTRACT This essay argues against a history of mathematics that celebrates a unique Greek ‘outlier’ in world history, while raising the question of the new type of histories of mathematics that we should write today. Taking examples from the history of mathematical sources in Sanskrit and histories of mathematics written in South Asia, this essay deconstructs some assumptions behind narratives of Greek and European exceptionalism. In particular, it challenges the notion that ancient Greece possessed a unique democratic culture that fostered scientific debate and that only Greece possessed brash authors able to challenge common sense. The essay provides a reflection on the political histories that European exceptionalism – in particular regarding mathematics – has directly or indirectly shaped.

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Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 综合性期刊-综合性期刊

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2.30

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9.10%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is a quarterly journal that aims to explore the social, philosophical and historical interrelations of the natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, medicine and technology with the social sciences, humanities and arts.